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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSHUT UP!: Watch Bill OReilly lose it when Al Franken exposes him as a liar during vintage segment
Before he was a U.S. Senator, Al Franken was the author of Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right, a satirical book that excoriated conservative media.
In 2003, he faced off with one of the subjects of his book, the infamous Bill OReilly, during a panel discussion at the author event BookExpo. OReilly and Franken both spoke on the panel, beginning with the Fox News host, who promised he doesnt call anybody a liar and doesnt lie himselfas evidenced by the fact that his show doesnt retract things.
If Im going to be accused of being a liar, you better have something there, OReilly said to Franken before the future senator spoke.
And speak he did. Franken delivered a brutal smackdown of OReilly, describing a time the Fox News host claimed he won a Peabody award (an objectively false statement), and, when called out for lying, claimed hed never said it in the first place.
Guy says about me a couple weeks ago, OReilly said he won a Peabody award, Franken recalled OReilly saying. Never said it.
See this is why you dont retract things, you just continuously lie, Franken joked. I could go on all day, he later quipped.
I know you could, OReilly cooly replied. You just about have.
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/04/shut-up-watch-bill-oreilly-lose-it-when-al-franken-exposes-him-as-a-liar-during-vintage-segment/
Sculpin Beauregard
(1,046 posts)still_one
(92,396 posts)malaise
(269,157 posts)still_one
(92,396 posts)shenmue
(38,506 posts)oasis
(49,408 posts)a kennedy
(29,707 posts)still_one
(92,396 posts)a kennedy
(29,707 posts)and billo can suck my teet.
ThoughtCriminal
(14,049 posts)He makes it look easy, but it's not. Most of us are thrown off by such brazen lying, but he handles it with remarkable poise.
mountain grammy
(26,648 posts)Oh how I miss them. And Al, love that man.
Who's the asshole?
JBoy
(8,021 posts)Couldn't shout down Al or cut his mike. Fuck O'Reilly.
amuse bouche
(3,657 posts)Rorey
(8,445 posts)Thanks!
Now I need to try to find the rest of it.
3catwoman3
(24,045 posts)...as fearless as Senator Franken.